110295 rr RuddigoreEU 20/09/2004 12:04pm Page 1 CMYK N 8.110295 ADD AXOS Historical Playing h THIS COMPACTAND COPYING OF BROADCASTING DISC PROHIBITED. UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, RESERVED. TRANSLATIONS ALLAND TEXTS ARTWORK, THIS SOUND RECORDING, RIGHTS IN GILBERT and SULLIVAN 2004 & Time 8.110295 Ruddigore 74:19 © 2004 Naxos Rights International Ltd. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd . Martyn Green Having already mocked the Richard Dauntless . Leonard Osborn time-honoured institutions, Sir Despard Murgatroyd of Ruddigore . Richard Watson the Navy (HMS Pinafore), Old Adam Goodheart . Radley Flynn the judicature (Trial by Jury) Sir Roderick Murgatroyd . Darrell Fancourt and the archetypal English GILBERT & SULLIVAN: ‘flower power’ group known Rose Maybud . Margaret Mitchell as the Aesthetic Movement Ruddigore Dame Hannah . Ella Halman (Patience), in Ruddigore Zorah . Deirdre Thurlow W. S. Gilbert ridiculed Mad Margaret . Ann Drummond-Grant contemporary obsessions Chorus of Officers, Ancestors, Professional Bridesmaids with etiquette and the and Villagers supernatural. Without being Recorded 21 July and 24 August 1950 London a top G&S favourite, Ruddigore is a highly Decca LK 4027/8, London LLP 243/4; mx ARL 429/32 accomplished score with The D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus and Orchestra several finely-integrated conducted by Isidore Godfrey dramatic moments, including Ruddigore the memorable ‘gallery of GILBERT & SULLIVAN: ghosts’ sequence. 1 Overture 6:49 MADE IN 2-* Act I 44:19 THE E.U. (-• Act II 23:11 www.naxos.com Archivist & Restoration Producer: David Lennick 8.110295 Digital Noise Reduction: K&A Productions Ltd. Special thanks to Robert D. Pinsker A complete track list can be found in the booklet Cover Image: Mad Margaret from Ruddigore AXOS Historical (Mary Evans Picture Library) N.